AI-Generated Linux Miner ‘Koske’ Beats Human Malware
AI malware is becoming less of a gimmick, with features that meet or exceed what traditional human-developed malware typically can do.
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North Korea’s IT Worker Rampage Continues Amid DoJ Action
Arrests and indictments keep coming, but the North Korean fake IT worker scheme is only snowballing, and businesses can’t afford to assume their applicant-screening processes are up to the task of weeding the imposters out.
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U.S. Sanctions Firm Behind N. Korean IT Scheme; Arizona Woman Jailed for Running Laptop Farm
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a North Korean front company and three associated individuals for their involvement in the fraudulent remote information technology (IT) worker scheme designed to generate illicit revenues for Pyongyang. The sanctions target Korea Sobaeksu Trading Company (aka Sobaeksu United Corporation), and Kim Se…
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Patchwork Targets Turkish Defense Firms with Spear-Phishing Using Malicious LNK Files
The threat actor known as Patchwork has been attributed to a new spear-phishing campaign targeting Turkish defense contractors with the goal of gathering strategic intelligence. “The campaign employs a five-stage execution chain delivered via malicious LNK files disguised as conference invitations sent to targets interested in learning more about unmanned vehicle systems,” Arctic Wolf Labs…
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Why Security Nudges Took Off
Nudges can be powerful — but they are not immune to overuse or misapplication.
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Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits Russian Aerospace Sector Using EAGLET Backdoor
Russian aerospace and defense industries have become the target of a cyber espionage campaign that delivers a backdoor called EAGLET to facilitate data exfiltration. The activity, dubbed Operation CargoTalon, has been assigned to a threat cluster tracked as UNG0901 (short for Unknown Group 901). “The campaign is aimed at targeting employees of Voronezh Aircraft Production…
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The Young and the Restless: Young Cybercriminals Raise Concerns
National governments warn that many hacker groups attract young people through a sense of community, fame, or the promise of money and the perception of a lack of risk of prosecution.
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Soco404 and Koske Malware Target Cloud Services with Cross-Platform Cryptomining Attacks
Threat hunters have disclosed two different malware campaigns that have targeted vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across cloud environments to deliver cryptocurrency miners. The threat activity clusters have been codenamed Soco404 and Koske by cloud security firms Wiz and Aqua, respectively. Soco404 “targets both Linux and Windows systems, deploying platform-specific malware,” Wiz
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Overcoming Risks from Chinese GenAI Tool Usage
A recent analysis of enterprise data suggests that generative AI tools developed in China are being used extensively by employees in the US and UK, often without oversight or approval from security teams. The study, conducted by Harmonic Security, also identifies hundreds of instances in which sensitive data was uploaded to platforms hosted in China,…
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Microsoft SharePoint Zero-day Attack
FortiGuard Labs has detected and successfully blocked hundreds of exploitation attempts targeting a newly discovered zero-day vulnerability chain in on-premises Microsoft SharePoint servers. This active campaign is being exploited by multiple threat actors and poses a significant risk to a wide range of sectors including government, education, healthcare, and large enterprises.